Earthrace- Speedboat powered on Bio-Diesel tries for World Record
This is a very cool story that Brett, our ER guru in Columbia sent my way. There is a lot of information on the website, but I’ve listed some of the highlights below, including the fact that some human fat has gone to create the bio-diesel.
About Earthrace             
Earthrace has been built to break the official UMI ‘Round the World Speed Record by a powerboat. By running on exclusively 100% Biodiesel fuel, and with a net zero carbon footprint, this not-for-profit project aims to promote awareness of the environment and the sustainable use of resources.
What can you make biodiesel from?
One of the great advantages of biodiesel is that it can be made from so many different products. In the future, countries will simply use the feed-stocks most suited to their environment. The most common forms of feed stocks used now are canola (Europe) and soya bean (USA), but there are over 350 other crops that can also be used. These include coconut, palm oil, mustard seed, sunflower and jatropha (which is becoming more widely farmed as it grows in areas where it is difficult to grow anything else). But you can also make biodiesel from tallow (animal fats), fish oil, seaweed and algae. In fact, in an extraordinary show of dedication to the project, the skipper, Pete Bethune, underwent liposuction, and the fat (all 100ml) was used to make a small amount of Biodiesel for Earthrace!You can check it out at http://www.earthrace.net
greg
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
Hi Greg and All,
What a cool site you got here!
A little addition to the news: we had to postpone race start to March 29. Have a new site with real cool video blogs, a wonderful team of volunteers helping us out with the refit so we can have Earthrace ready for the attempt.
Keep fingers crossed for us!
Cheers,
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May 1st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
i always use Biodiesel on my car to help the environment. Biodiesel is cleaner and is reneweable.-`:
August 11th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
i hope that we would be able to mass produce Biodiesel in the near future and i also hope that it would get cheaper,~~
September 30th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
biodiesel fuels are less polluting and more renewable compared to fossil fuels like conventional diesel-”,
October 18th, 2010 at 1:29 am
biodiesel is the best fuel that we can get, it is reneweable and sustainable’.,
November 7th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
biodiesel should be the stuff that we should put on our engines because it is a renewable fuel “
July 14th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
That is a great point out talk about. Thanks for the post.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
It is Amazing! Thanks a lot.